Black Athena Volume I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985 - Martin Bernal

What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the foundation of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures. But these Afroasiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied or suppressed since the eighteenth century—chiefly for racist reasons.

In an unprecedented tour de force, Martin Bernal links a wide range of areas and disciplines—drama, poetry, myth, theological controversy, esoteric religion, philosophy, biography, language, historical narrative, and the emergence of “modern scholarship.”

ISBN: 9781978804265
Published by Rutgers University Press, 2020
Language: English
669 pp, 20.3 x 13.2 cm